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Study: Much of the Mobile area will be at the bottom of the ocean by the year 2100

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The research group Climate Central released a study recently that says many cities along the Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific Coast could be gone by the year 2100. Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, pictured above, which was named as one of those cities.

Not the City of Mobile, but many of her neighbors in Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Dauphin Island and Point Clear could be as much as 25 percent below the current sea level by the end of the century, according to the non-profit research group Climate Central.

The group’s evaluation of several cities in the United States, many along the Gulf Coast, culminated in a study with the shocking results. Researchers found that 316 cities around the country may be at the bottom of the ocean by the year 2100. By that target, some 45,260 residents could be impacted in the Mobile area.

The study cites, as climate researchers have long held, increased carbon emissions and the long-term trend of warming seas and melting ice caps.

While Alabama as a whole was given a lesser rating than the nearby states of Florida and Louisiana, almost all of the coastal cities were listed as being in danger.

Even further inland areas such as Satsuma, Saraland, Creola and Axis made the list of places doomed by the rising tide. Interestingly, many areas surrounding the Port City but not Mobile itself, which sits in the middle of the target area, were listed.

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